Alexander the Great

S6, E2: 400 B.C., this is where our story begins. Greece lives in the shadow of the mighty Persian Empire. Alexander grows up in the small kingdom of Macedonia. His mother Olympias arranges a good education for her son. She is convinced that Alexander is of divine origin and immortal. The boy believes his mother’s “wisdom” and tries to conquer the world as a grown-up man. The historians call him “Alexander the Great”, but at the age of 33 he shares the fate of any other mortal being.